Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free to stir Iran once more to rebellion, and chaos. They also feared to execute him for treason, and thus give him a martyr's crown. They even worried that a public trial would give the old wizard a stage from which to work his spell on Teheran's easily swayed street mobs. Mossadegh, after all his years at the game of plot, imprisonment and exile, knew too well how to capitalize on his captors' uneasiness...
...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...
...shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that it is no more reasonable to require that each girl shall spell well than it is that each one shall bake a good cherry...
...negotiating a workable scheme of international atomic control with the Russians. Wiley's proposal merited cool-headed consideration. One reason: no one has yet disproved the theory that the Russians, faced with imminent cracks behind their Iron Curtain, may be looking for a long cold-war breathing spell...
...just before its stock broke, Odlum's Atlas Corp. was 38% in cash and Government securities (total: $68 million), and at Atlas' annual meeting last week he told the stockholders that he intended to keep it that way for "weeks or months" while he took a breathing spell. In short, Odlum seemed to be betting he could buy stocks lower later...